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Tatjana said she is going to write a narrative about Wolfie for Toby’s website – Toby runs a German Shepherd Rescue operation and is a one woman show having saved hundreds of dogs. We first learned of her when we met Wolfie. On January 19th, I was riding my bike home from the dentist and saw this dog scooting across the road near Robert E Lee and the levee. I called Tatjana and she came and we took the dog to our vet. The xrays said she didn’t have a broken bone but she was certainly in pain, so we got medicine and we brought her home.

At that time in our lives, Arlene was nearing her 14th birthday and she was peeing on herself and getting stuck in corners. Loca needed at least an hour walk if not more just to expend some of her energy. This German Shepherd was more than we could handle. So we called Toby to see if she could find this dog a home, but then the next day we learned the dog had heart worms. So with Toby’s funds and our care, we decided to foster the dog through the heart worm process and then we’d find her a home.

Well you know how these stories go, or do you? I had to go to New York on a business trip and meanwhile Wolfie had shown a propensity for baring her teeth to anyone who came near the house that she didn’t like or know. There was a rapist running amuck in the hood, having attempted to rape eight women, and my neighbor was telling me to get a gun. Not the gun type, I worried about T home alone while I was in New York. But something about Wolfie made me feel that she was safe.

We learned later that a German Shepherd will protect her owner to her death. This uncanny dog with large soulful eyes, so large and majestic and yet so crippled with arthritis and heart worms, looked like she just might eat two rapists if they even appeared to threaten us. After her heart worm treatment, we took her in to get her spayed and learned she had huge ovarian cysts.

She came out of the heart worm and the cysts treatments with flying colors and for months we had a puppy like dog and guess what, her name was Wolfie, Wolfie Levee to be exact. She was an incredible dog. And because of her legs and her convalescence she stayed mostly in Tatjana’s office with her and eventually became her mascot.

Today, while I was sitting on the porch with Tin asleep on my chest the mailman came up and asked where the German Shepherd was. I said sadly she passed. He said, “I’m so sorry to hear that. I would come to the door and it would take her a bit to get up on her legs and get to the door to bark at me, so I started waiting for her to get to the door before I walked away, so she wouldn’t feel bad.”

Damn, that dog, so little time with us and such a BIG impression.

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